President Ben Zvi will receive Prime Minister David Ben Gurion tomorrow, after completing talks with delegations of all parties on formation of a new Government. It was expected the President would ask Mr. Ben Gurion to form a new Government. If Mr. Ben Gurion demurs, the meeting tomorrow will constitute the first in a “second round” of consultations.
If the Prime Minister agrees to head a caretaker Government until the elections to Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in November, it was presumed he would reconcile himself to a continuation of the present Government despite the presence of the four left-wing Ministers who voted against the Government on the recent sale of $3,000, 000 worth of Israel-made arms to West Germany.
Observers were doubtful whether the Prime Minister, in his present mood, would agree actually to sit in the cabinet with the four Ministers of Achdut Avodah and Mapam. He has refused to attend Cabinet meetings, at which the four Ministers have been present, since their anti-Government vote ten days ago.
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